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Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Theatre tickets, World Book Day photos and exclusive stories in this week's paper
This week's edition of the Isle of Wight County Press is out in shops tomorrow (Friday, March 14), and it's bursting with exclusive stories and reasons to buy! From nominating your favourite fish and chip shop to admiring the efforts of all the World Book Day characters, there's something for everyone. Look out for our exclusive stories, court reports and features such as heritage, business, the Matt and Cat food review and spotlight on an interesting chef. This week you will notice some changes to the internal layout of the County Press. Read all about it here: County Press leading the way We have decided to make space to fit even more news in, so we are taking news further back into the newspaper, right up to the popular eight-page puzzle pull-out. That's 36 pages of news at the front of the newspaper alone. Additionally, we have retained all the popular features and expanded some of them, in the pages after the puzzles. Letters and opinion can now be found over three pages, with thanks to all those who contribute to make them a must-read section! Just some of the places our reporters have been to get stories since last Thursday: Rockfall in Ventnor, Quay Arts, Department in Ryde, Hunnyhill Aquatics, White Hart Inn in Havenstreet, Red Lion in Freshwater, Shanklin Theatre to watch Wind in the Willows, Ventnor for the town crier's first outing, Magistrates' Court, Crown Court, County Hall, as well as here there and everywhere to cover breaking news from Coppins Bridge to Sandown seafront. Find the County Press in shops across the Island, or subscribe to to read the digital flip-through edition. The County Press is the biggest selling weekly newspaper in the country, and has been nominated for the Best Local Weekly Newspaper award in the prestigious Newspaper Awards .
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Clare Balding's new TV show filmed in Oxford out this week
Clare Balding has filmed a new TV show in Oxfordshire which is out this week. The broadcast journalist and author currently presents for BBC Sport and Channel 4 having previously worked for BT Sport, now TNT Sports. She formerly presented the Good Morning Sunday on BBC Radio 2 but has now turned her attention back to television with a new show. In Channel 5's Tales from the Riverbank, Ms Balding will travel down the River Thames making several stops on the way. READ MORE: Great British Bake Off star Mary Berry films new TV show in Oxfordshire One of our locks appears in 'Tales from the Riverbank' this Thursday, 8pm on Channel 5. Clare Balding explores the River Thames in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, including meeting our lock keeper Lee at Lechlade. — Environment AgencySE (@EnvAgencySE) February 25, 2025 The river stretches over 200 miles from Gloucestershire to Essex, and along its route, the presenter discovers how it stoked the imagination of writers and painters. She stops off at the 'dreaming spires' of Oxford and goes in search of Toad Hall when she visits the landscapes that inspired Kenneth Graham's Wind in the Willows. Making her way to stately home and five-star hotel, Cliveden House, she meets Swan Marker David Barber, and the trip wouldn't be complete without a visit to the famous Windsor Castle. READ MORE: Oxford University beats Cambridge in new world rankings 🌟Subscribe to the Oxford Mail for £2 for 2 months in this new flash sale offer. Benefits include an ad-light experience, the e-edition of the newspaper, unlimited access to our content and a reader's rewards scheme 👍 Full details here 👇 — Oxford Mail (@TheOxfordMail) February 25, 2025 A social media update on X from the Environment Agency in the South East said: 'One of our locks appears in 'Tales from the Riverbank' this Thursday, 8pm on Channel 5. 'Clare Balding explores the River Thames in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, including meeting our lock keeper Lee at Lechlade.' Tales from the Riverbank starring Clare Balding will air at 8pm on Thursday (February 27) on Channel 5.
Telegraph
13-02-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Mole defends Big Don as Lib Dems succumb to an attack of America-brain
The House of Commons was heaving for Transport Questions as MPs lined up to associate themselves with the repair of the lifts at railway stations in their constituency. On such issues are paper-thin majorities maintained. Where the British public is less prepared to give electoral credit is in the defence of Europe from Russian expansionism. Just ask Boris Johnson about that. Correspondingly, as an urgent question about the Ukraine war began, we saw a great emptying of the green benches, especially on the Labour side, as MPs went to iron their lanyards or something. Answering for the Government was Maria Eagle. Ms Eagle is an accomplished parliamentarian but seems an unlikely choice for defence. She has the appearance and general zeal of Mole from the Wind in the Willows. Pugilistic she ain't. Still, this wasn't really about the war itself but about spreadsheets. Mole was on surer ground here. Specifically, the Tories wanted assurances that, given the peril of the European situation, the defence budget would not be next for the Playmobil Chancellor's great swingeing axe. Of course the elephant in the room – or rather, not in the room but in the White House – was The Donald. Mr Trump's phone calls with Vladimir Putin have understandably made Ukraine nervous. Yet they've made the Lib Dems absolutely giddy. Clearly hoping to appeal even more to the smug dinner party constituency, the Lib Dems have made performative horror about The Donald a benchmark of their questioning in recent weeks. It's symbolic of the cancerous America-brain afflicting the UK chattering class. I sincerely doubt anyone facing the gutting of their town centre or languishing on an NHS waiting list really thinks that wittering on about the subversion of Jeffersonian democracy is much help but clearly our friends in Yellow Rosettes think it's a real winner. Mole would not be drawn and instead soberly stated that she thought it wrong to say that Big Don had betrayed Ukraine. She was then disarmingly polite to Rishi Sunak who popped up to offer his support. Jeremy Corbyn dressed as Mr Bean She was even patient and considered when another blast from the past appeared to ask a question from the furthest reaches of the opposition benches. Jeremy Corbyn had come dressed as Mr Bean and asked a deranged ramble posing as a question, featuring segues about feeling sorry for Russian soldiers and a weird bit about the Pope. Less convincing was Mole's wriggling when asked the $1million – or rather £40 billion – question by Ben Spencer about how on earth the Government expected people (including, one presumes, President Trump) to believe that Britain couldn't afford to increase defence spending, while splurging seemingly endless cash into the hands of the Mauritian wallet inspectors. Mole managed a mumbled comment about how under the last Labour government defence spending had actually been very high thank you very much, and then plonked down. She looked like she wanted the ground to swallow her up. She probably shared this sentiment with her boss. The PM wasn't in Westminster today but instead, in a one-man Alan Partridge tribute act, was being chased around a construction site by some enraged farmers. Furious at his spite tax and general refusal to take their concerns seriously, the farmers blasted Noughties trance hit Sandstorm by Darude over their tractor horns while Sir Keir vainly tried to make gormless small talk with some goons specially assembled for the purpose. In the end, still wearing his hi-vis, he rushed into his Land Rover and sped off while the farmers yelled 'Talk to us!' at him. Sometimes I wonder whether, for all his insanity, Mr Corbyn could really have been much worse.
